Each year Vans asks Europe’s finest skate shops assemble their best teams to head with their familiar rivals in a local showdown, with the victorious team from each battle progressing to the finals.

The finals are notoriously professional in their nature: requiring technical support to live stream the finals through vansshopriot.com. Last year in Madrid guest commentators were flown in from the united states and artist weasel face displayed his work in a pop up gallery within a branded shipping container.